Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. The rights transferred include not only all underlying character rights and the full rights to the three published comics stories, but also to 'Baby', an original Salimba prose story that About Comics had hired Perry to write, the final story he would ever create.Īnd with that taken care of, About Comics can get out of the rights-trading business and back to what it does best: reprinting works both beloved and obscure, with an occasional dash of new stuff -mlook for a new comic book adventure of Bernie Mireault's The Jam in 2022! Posted in: Comics | Tagged: about comics, Nat Gertle, paul chadwick, Salimba About Rich JohnstonFounder of Bleeding Cool. This is the best of all possible outcomes.' I was never sure whether to sell them off, to do new stories, or what. Frankly, it felt a little odd owning the rights to the creation of someone who was still alive. 'So it feels good to get it back into Paul's hands. Stephen then sold the rights to me in February 2010.' Perry died later that year. 'Stephen Perry had fallen on hard times, and Paul had given him his share of the rights. 'Salimba had fallen into my hands through sad circumstances,' explains About Comics publisher Nat Gertler.

Salimba, noted as the first comic book character in the 'jungle queen' tradition to be Black, originally appeared in comic books published as part of the Blackthorne 3-D series. 7: The Human Dilemma by Paul Chadwick: 9781630084646 : Books Life as Concrete knows it is about to change forever.

Chadwick had co-created the character with writer Stephen Perry in the 1980s.

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